7th Grade Qtr 1

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Quarter 1 : Islamic and African Civilizations

Standards
 Content
The Big Idea:
Muslim scholars and artists made important contributions to science, art and literature.
The early African civilizations passed their culture and stories down through a strong oral tradition and through art.
 Skills
 Activities
 Assessment
RL.7.1,
RL.7.2,
RL.7.3,
RL.7.4,
RL.7.5,
RL.7.6,
 Literary Text
  • Cite textual evidence to:
Analyze explicit meaning
Support inferences
  • Determine theme
  • Analyze development
  • Summarize text
  • Analyze how story elements (plot, setting, etc.) effect each other
  • Determine figurative and connotative meanings
  • Analyze the impact of repetition on poetry and prose.
  • Analyze the effect of form and structure in prose and poetry
  • Analyze point of view
 Suggested Reading:
African Folk Tales
Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali by Khephra Burns
Mella and the N'anga: an African tale by Gail Nyoka
 Formative Assessments:
Quiz, Ticket-out-the door, Quick write, Survey, Likert scale, observation, QAR squares
Summative Assessment
RI.7.1,
RI.7.2,
RI.7.3,
RI.7.4,
RI.7.5.
RI.7.6,
RI.7.7
 Analysis of Information Text
  • Cite textual evidence to:
Analyze explicit meaning
Support inferences
  • Determine theme
  • Analyze development
  • Summarize text
  • Analyze individuals, event and ideas effect each other
  • Determine figurative, connotative and technical meaning
  • Analyze impact of of word choice on meaning and tone
  • Analyze structure and how it effects development of ideas
  • Determine POV
  • Determine how an author distinguishes his position
  • Compare and contrast a text to a media version
  • Analyze how the media effects meaning
 Suggested Reading: When elephants fight: the lives of children in conflict in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sir Lanka, Sudan and Uganda by Eric Walters
W.7.4,
W.7.5,
W.7.6,
W.7.7,
W.7.9, W.7.10
W.7.3
 Narrative Writing
  • Understand development, organization, style, task, purpose and audience
  • Use planning, revising, editing and rewriting techniques
  • Utilize peer and adult critique
  • Use technology to produce and publish writing
  • Cite and link sources
  • Use evidence from literary and informational text to support writing
  • Ability to write for extended periods of time on a range of topics and for different audiences and purposes
  • Write well structured, sequential and descriptive narratives
  • Write narratives that include dialogue
 1. Task Definition: Use of graphs, interest surveys, KWL, etc
2. Information seeking strategies: OPAC, Infohio, databases, Google Scholar, Websites
3. Location and Access: Evaluation of sources, plagerism, citation
4. Use of information: paraphrase, summarize, creative commons
5. Sythesis: Prezi, PPT, Moviemaker, website creation, Publisher, glogster,
6. Evaluation
 Write a narritive from the point of view of someone from one of the cultures studied OR use a story commonly known in Western Culture, such as Cinderella, and retell the story from a different cultural perspective.
SL.7.1,
SL.7.5,
SL.7.6
  • Engage in effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
  • Refer to evidence from researched and read materials during discussions
  • Follow discussion protocols
  • Modify views when warranted
  • Include multimedia elements to clarify and emphasize
  • Demonstrate command of formal English
 Peer Response Groups: Provide students with various protocals.
 Be a storyteller: Memorize and perform a story from your culture OR tell the story you wrote for the Narrative Assessment
L.7.1,
L.7.2,
L.7.3,
L.7.4,
L.7.5,
L.7.6
  • Demonstrate command of standard English grammar
  • Explain the function of phrases and clauses
  • Choose different sentence structures to show relationships (ex. Compound, Complex)
  • Place phrases and clauses within sentences
  • Recognize and correct misplaced and dangling modifiers
  • Demonstrate command of standard English capitalization, punctuation and spelling
  • Use a comma to seperate coordinate adjectives
  • Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely
  • Determine or clarify meaning of unknown or multiple meaning words
  • Use multiple strategies to define and claify meaning of words
  • Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
  • Use common Greek or Latin arrixes and roots as clues to meaning
  • Consult general and specialized reference materials to find pronunciation and clarify meaning
  • Demonstrate understanding of figurative language
  • Interpret figures of speech in context
  • Use the relationships between words to understand each of the words
  • Distinguish among the connotations of words with similar denotations
  • Aquire and use grade-appropriate words and phrases
  • Aquire and use domain specific words and phrases
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 Revision and Deep Revision techniques
Example:
Students rewrite narrative in a different point of view.
Students identify all passive verbs in narrative and change to active.
Students rewrite narrative from a different perspective.
Students identify overused words and use a thesarus to improve their word usage.
Students identify any uses of idiom, cliche, analogies, allusions and other figurative language in their writing. Ask them to rewrite without using figurative language and then make a determination which is better.